A/HRC/45/CRP.11 Table 5: Numbers regarding deaths attributable to security forces, according to source Year Ministry of Interior1767 Former Attorney General1768 OVV1769 COFAVIC 2014 13831770 NA NA 10181771 2015 2596 1777 NA 13961772 2016 5995 4667 52811773 23791774 2017 4998 1848 (between January and June 2017) 55351775 20171776 2018 52871777 NA 75231778 18391779 2019 15691780 NA (between 1 January and 19 May 2019) or 4 1721781 (up to July 2019) 52861782 14411783 1011. In her July 2020 report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that 1,324 individuals, including nine women, were killed in the context of security operations between 1 January and 31 May 2020. 1784 1012. At regional level, other NGOs have tracked killings committed by police. The Victims Monitor (Monitor de Víctimas) documented 603 people killed in 2018, 1785 304 in 20191786 1767 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 198 These are reportedly deaths for “resisting authority”. Complaint by ex-Attorney General, Luisa Ortega Díaz, to the International Criminal Court, 16 November 2017, p. 35. Information available at https://observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve/. The OVV works with eight universities around the country to gather information on rates of violent death, through a methodology of monitoring press, conducting household surveys and analysing official information where it has access to such data. See a description of its methodology at: https://observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve/news/informe-anual-de-violencia-2019/. Data from 2014 to 2017 (inclusive) from: Keymer Ávila, El Uso de la Fuerza Pública y el Derecho a la Vida en Venezuela, on the basis of data provided by Ministry of the Interior, p. 43 (2019). These are categorized as “extrajudicial executions”. See COFAVIC, Venezuela: Ejecuciones Extrajudiciales, p. 46, available at: https://cofavic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EjecucionesExtrajudiciales-Final-1-1_2017.pdf. Ibid. https://observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve/news/2016-ovv-estima-28-479-muertes-violentas-envenezuela/. These are categorized as “extrajudicial executions”. See COFAVIC, Venezuela: Ejecuciones Extrajudiciales, p. 46, available at: https://cofavic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EjecucionesExtrajudiciales-Final-1-1_2017.pdf. https://observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve/news/2017-informe-ovv-de-violencia/. Information provided to the Mission by COFAVIC. A/HRC/41/18, para. 50. The report cites as the source “Information provided by the Government”. https://observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve/news/ovv-lacso-informe-anual-de-violencia-2018/ Information provided to the Mission by COFAVIC. A/HRC/41/18, para. 50. The report cites as the source “Information provided by the Government”. News sources also said that the Minister of the Interior, Néstor Reverol, stated in a television programme in July 2019 that so far in the year, 4,172 people had died resisting authority. See: https://lta.reuters.com/articulo/venezuela-violencia-informe-idLTAKBN1YV1GS. https://observatoriodeviolencia.org.ve/news/informe-anual-de-violencia-2019/. Information provided to the Mission by COFAVIC. A/HRC/44/20, para. 35. https://miconvive.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/MDV-Reporte-Anual-2018-1.pdf. See: https://runrun.es/monitor-de-victimas/398571/monitor-de-victimas-2019-estos-son-los-nombresde-las-896-victimas-de-homicidio-en-caracas/.